Names, Letters and Signs - Bright from the Start

[Pages:42]Names, Letters and Signs

? # 19 Learning my name ? # 20 Discovering print ? # 21 Seeing first words ? # 22 Making signs ? # 23 Many ways to write ? # 24 Writing with magnetic letters

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Playing with Sounds and Rhyming Words

? # 25 Playing with sounds ? # 26 Talking about words ? # 27 Talking about nursery rhymes ? # 28 Learning about rhyming

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Making Up Stories

? # 29 Making a story up ? # 30 Many ways to draw ? # 31 Keeping drawings ? # 32 Keeping a diary ? # 33 Keeping a diary with words ? # 34 Writing words

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Learning About Rhyming

? # 35 Having fun with rhyming ? # 36 Using letters to rhyme ? # 37 Rhyming words

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Activity

Learning my name

Put your child's name on his/her: ? Bedroom door ? Toys ? Cup ? Drawings Teach your child the names and

sounds of the letters in his/her name.

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Hints

Learning my name

To help your child succeed, you can:

? Put your child's name on his/her favorite things (blanket, dolly).

? Write your child's name in scented crayons, and let him/her smell it.

? Write your child's name in his/her favorite color.

? Write your child's name next to a photograph or portrait.

To make this activity more challenging, you can:

? Ask your child the names and sounds of letters in his/her name.

? Have your child try to write his/her name.

? Write your child's name in uppercase and lowercase letters.

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Activity

Discovering print

Point out that there are pictures and words on:

? Food packaging ? Clothing ? Buildings ? Road signs ? Automobiles ? Billboards Help your child learn these

pictures and words.

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A project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs ? 2006, Washington Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

Hints

Discovering print

To help your child succeed,

you can:

? Talk about pictures and words in family photo albums, junk mail, magazines and newspapers.

? Point to pictures and words on things that your child touches often (clothes, toys, crayons, cereal boxes).

? Point to big letters in signs of familiar restaurants, grocery stores, and road signs.

? Cut out pictures and signs from cereal boxes and other products and use to make puzzles or play matching card games with your child.

To make this activity more challenging, you can:

? See if your child knows what signs, pictures, words and numbers mean.

? Point to letters in words while saying the words slowly.

? Have your child say the names and sounds of the letters in the words.

? Have your child write the words.

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